{"id":4182,"date":"2012-05-16T13:12:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T17:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=4182"},"modified":"2012-10-11T09:27:40","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T13:27:40","slug":"30-for-30-is-coming-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=4182","title":{"rendered":"30 for 30 is coming back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN and Grantland <a href=\"http:\/\/espnmediazone.com\/us\/press-releases\/2012\/05\/espn-films-announces-the-return-of-the-acclaimed-series-30-for-30\/\">announced toda<\/a>y the 2nd installment of the fantastic 30-for-30 series.<\/p>\n<p>I thought the network made a huge mistake by not keeping the 30-for-30 brand name when it released a slew of follow-on productions after the initial run of 30 ended. \u00a0Instead they branded them as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/30_for_30\">ESPN Films presents<\/a>&#8230;&#8221; stories and made it nearly impossible for the DVR-age of TV viewers to find them. \u00a0Most of us depend on setting a &#8220;Record Series&#8221; job keyed on the name &#8230; but then they presented the follow-on films just using their titles. \u00a0To make matters worse ESPN kept changing the air times and the order, didn&#8217;t keep a regular weekly schedule of releases, and as a result the viewer numbers were down for the follow on shows. \u00a0I still havn&#8217;t seen half of the 2nd set, which is unfortunate because there&#8217;s some great stories presented.<\/p>\n<p>I did a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=467\">review of the first batch<\/a> of 30-for-30s and tried to post thoughts on some of the follow-on shows when I happened to catch them (reviews for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=2695\">Bartman<\/a> episode, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=2802\">Dotted-Line<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=2843\">The Real Rocky<\/a>) but ran out of gas on the reviews when it became too difficult to get them recorded.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, can&#8217;t wait to see the next installments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN and Grantland announced today the 2nd installment of the fantastic 30-for-30 series. I thought the network made a huge mistake by not keeping the 30-for-30 brand name when it released a slew of follow-on productions after the initial run of 30 ended. \u00a0Instead they branded them as &#8220;ESPN Films presents&#8230;&#8221; stories and made it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1042,8],"tags":[885],"class_list":["post-4182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-30-for-30","category-nonbaseball","tag-bill-simmons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4182"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4870,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4182\/revisions\/4870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}